General description Description of SMP Negeri 1 Grogol

CHAPTER III DISCUSSION

A. Introduction

In this chapter, the discussion is based on the activities done in the job training. The chapter III is divided into three main points. They are: school description, job training activities, and problems and solutions in teaching procedure genre for VII grades students of SMP Negeri 1 Grogol. The three main points above will be presented in this chapter:

B. Description of SMP Negeri 1 Grogol

1. General description

SMP Negeri 1 Grogol is located in Timur Perum Telukan, Sukoharjo. It was established in 1981. This school is large. Total area is 12.000 m 2 , and 2.776 m 2 of them is for the building. The building in this school is divided into several rooms, they are: a headmaster office, a teacher room, a school health unit, a computer and multimedia room, a school committee room, a library, an official room, a guiding and counseling room,a mosque, twenty one class rooms, a scientific laboratory, an art room, a canteen, a kitchen, and ten toilet. There is a square between a teacher room and VII class rooms. It uses for ceremony. There are a basketball field, tennis and badminton field in front of the building. As the other junior high school, SMP Negei 1 Grogol has three grades. They are VII grade, VIII grade and IX grade. Those grades have different number of students. Each grade has seven classes. The total students of the whole classes in this year are 877 students, consisting of 326 students in the VII grade, 280 students in the VIII grade and 271 students in IX grade. This school has a school committee and seventy nine staffs that can be divided into: a headmaster; four vice headmasters, eleven administration staff, forty four teachers including subject teachers, twenty one class teacher, two guiding and counseling teachers, six librarians and six laboratory staffs; six cleaning service staffs and one security officer. The job description of each staff and school committee can be described as follow: 1. Headmaster He is responsible for all parts of school activities. His main duty is coordinating the teachers and other staffs in order to reach the school goals. 2. Vice Headmaster Vice headmaster is responsible to help the headmaster coordinating the teachers in the school. Those four vice- headmasters can be divided into four fields. They are the headmaster for curicullum systems, the headmaster for tools and infrastructure, the headmaster for students’ activities and the headmaster for public relation. 3. School Committee It has a responsibility to help the school to complete the facilities which are needed to support the teaching and learning activities,both academic and physical facilities of the school. It consists of a chief of committee, a vice chief of committee, treasure of committee and thirteen members. 4. Administration staff The staff is responsible for all school administration, such as students’ administration and school administration. 5. Subject Teacher The subject teacher is responsible to solve the problems of the subject which is given and to give counseling service about the subject to the students. Here, a subject teacher as a facilitator and instrucor to the students. A subject teacher is also responsible to the teaching and learning activities occuring in the classroom. 6. Class Teacher A class teacher is responsible as students’ parents in the school. He or she is also responsible to control and monitor the students who are under his or her monitoring. Sometimes, they must guide their students and give them any advices, as if they were real students’ parents. 7. Guiding and Counseling Teacher The teacher in this division is responsible to give a guidance and counseling lessons to the students concerning to their attitudes in the school environment. Besides, the teacher can punish the students who make mistakes if they are not aware with the teacher reminders. 8. Librarian and Laboratory Staff The officers who are holding the library and laboratory are actually the same person with the subject teachers. It is caused by lacking the staff that is responsible for holding both library and laboratory. Librarian and laboratory staff are responsible to keep and use the facilities appropriately. 9. Cleaning Service staff This staff actually responsible for keeping the cleanliness of the school. However, in fact they were also an office boy who are responsible to prepare logistics such as making some tea for the teachers and opening the doors and the gate in the morning. 10. Security Officers Security officers are responsible for keeping the security of shool. Sometimes they also help the cleaning service to clean the floor every morning.

2. Facilites